Learn how successful people get ahead of the curve

If you can get ahead of the curve, you are on your way to success. I am using the term successful to cover many things that we would like to be; happier, richer, less stressed, slimmer, or fatter. The list is endless. You can decide what constitutes success for you. I think you will agree, what you find here will be important to achieve any end result you are personally looking for.

What does getting ahead of the curve mean and why is it important to me?

Moving forward on the curve can mean many things. These are some of the meanings.

Know what is likely to happen and take the appropriate steps to take advantage of what will happen or take steps to prevent something negative from happening to you.
Something is going to happen and you have no control over it. Based on this information, you have time to make the most of the situation.
Learn from what happened in the past, know what's coming, and make better and different decisions this time.
Based on the information available to you, you make an educated guess about what might happen and plan accordingly.
Take preventative measures to protect your position in case the situation changes and you are left with little or no time to react to the new environment.
If you are a stockbroker, getting ahead of the curve would mean finding new good stocks, doing your homework, finding out more about them than other brokers, and being the first to recommend this new action to your clients. Being ahead of the curve really means applying your self diligence to whatever effort you are making and investing your time in the right areas so that you can find more answers than questions. Moving forward on the curve means that on Wednesday something will happen to you at work; You have an important meeting. He would get ahead of the curve in this meeting by spending Monday and Tuesday preparing for this important meeting.
This is the classic difference between someone who will hold a successful meeting and someone who will not. The person holding the successful meeting will organize your time in such a way that the minor things that could deprive you of your meeting preparation time will not be allowed to enter your agenda. This person will set aside 2 hours on Monday and 2 hours on Tuesday to prepare for the meeting and will actually spend those 4 hours doing exactly that; preparing for the meeting. This is how you will get ahead of the curve; The curve in this case is the meeting.

Should I tell you what the failed meeting holder will do? If you even get to the point where you think about spending time on Mondays and Tuesdays to prepare for the meeting, it will be as far as you can. When you arrive at the meeting on Wednesday afternoon, the excuse will be that you did not have time to prepare for the meeting. He had a lot of time in the last two days, he just chose to spend that time on other tasks.

Why is it important for me to get ahead of the curve?

It is only important to you if you want to be successful. It occurred to me long ago that some people are simply not prepared to pay the price required to succeed. The price in this case is desire, as you go from day to day and as important tasks and jobs come up, whether it's to spend time, money, energy and resources on these tasks and get them done right, or you can just go with The Flow and take what comes next.